availability test w/ multimodal returns incorrect results
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Raymond Camden
Oct 23, 2025, 9:37:30 AMOct 23
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I've got the following simple function to detect if the browser can do multimodal prompting:
async function canDoIt() {
if(!window.LanguageModel) return false;
// to do, support downloadable
return (await LanguageModel.availability({expectedInputs:[{type:'image'}]})) === 'available';
}
if(!window.LanguageModel) return false;
// to do, support downloadable
return (await LanguageModel.availability({expectedInputs:[{type:'image'}]})) === 'available';
}
On my Chrome browser, this returned available, but got an error when I tried to make a session. Turns out, I had enabled the main flag for prompting, but NOT the one for multimodal. So it makes sense, but is it a bug that the availability() call returned available even though it wasn't?
Thomas Steiner
Oct 23, 2025, 10:03:38 AMOct 23
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This doesn't reproduce here on Version 143.0.7489.0 (Official Build) canary (arm64). I disabled the flag and the function correctly returns 'unavailable'.
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Raymond Camden
Oct 23, 2025, 10:05:42 AMOct 23
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Latest for me on OSX is 141 - so maybe it's been changed later? Either way, I'm fine assuming it will work perfectly in latest. :)
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Thomas Steiner
Oct 23, 2025, 10:07:23 AMOct 23
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Keep an eye on it, but for now I carefully assume it's not an issue anymore :-)
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